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thanks, cr, that was helpful. i think i might have to surrender to this problem i'm not picking a random 13th number, dale. I'm looking for the simplest pattern/formula i can find in the randomly chosen 12 numbers to determine the 13th number. if I'm lucky enough to pick 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9...

is there any way to simplify it and get a less complex formula? for example, if i randomly chose 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12, i could come up with a less complex formula than an 11th-degree polynomial i have a feeling the answer to my original question is no. thanks for the help, though

yes, qntty, that would technically count as a pattern, but I'm not content with it i'd like to find a formula i can use that outputs these numbers, so that i can figure out what the next number is for example, if i randomly chose the numbers 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24, i could use the...

assuming that the nonsense you are making up is true, it's possible that the non-42 finite chunk at the beginning is larger than 12 numbers

if one were to randomly choose some numbers, such as the 12 below, is it always possible to determine a pattern and figure out the next number? or is this only possible if we are lucky enough to randomly choose numbers that fit a pattern (for example, if we randomly chose the numbers 1 2 3 4 5...